Ashlyn is getting old enough now that she’s starting to mimic more than just words. Fortunately, she’s wanting to mimic mom more than dad. When I wake Ashlyn up in the morning, the first thing she says is “bottle'?”. After she gets her bottle, she’ll pause, look towards the door, and say “mommy!!”. She’ll toddle to our bedroom as fast as her legs can carry her, then she’ll go into the bathroom, and then up on mommy’s lap she goes while the morning make-up is put on.
Ashlyn doesn’t get to play with real make up yet. We have one, maybe two decades to go before that will be allowed.
Outside, when mom sat on the window ledge, Ashlyn had to sit there too. These pictures make me smile.
The weather on Saturday was wonderful, so we took the kiddo and the gardening tools outside and started digging up the flower bed and retaining wall. This is where the mimicking fell apart. She spent 2.5 seconds trying to use the hoe, got bored, and then proceeded to tear into dad’s milkshake. Ashlyn was messier than we were at the end, and she accomplished that feat with no actual gardening being done. And if anyone is thinking, “hey, looks like she’s mimicking dad after all”, let me know who you are so I can de-friend you on Facebook.
That night the Wolfe family came over, and Ashlyn was, as always, entertained by cousin Heidi.
Sunday was colder, so we bundled the kiddo up in pink and let her romp around outside until mom and dad were ready to go back in.
Words of the week:
- Horse
- Elment (elephant)
- What?
- Yucky!
- Wet
- All gone